Government must fund hyperlocal news, urges report
Carnegie UK Trust calls for online start-ups to receive backing to fill local media gaps
Seymour Hersh attacks ‘useless’ NSA over surveillance
Veteran reporter advises young journalists not to run scared of bullying by governments and intelligence agencies
Jeff Bezos: I’ve made billions of dollars of failures at Amazon
Amazon CEO admits that failures have cost the company dear but experimentation like the Fire Phone is key to survival
Twitter needs to crack down on illegal goal clips, says Sun editor
David Dinsmore applauds YouTube and Vine for taking steps to remove content that infringes Premier League broadcasting rights
Mail Online revenues grow 41% to £62m in 2014
Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday’s continuing decline in advertising and sales offset by digital platform’s increases
The National to double print run after selling out launch issue
Newsquest’s pro-independence Scottish daily sells all 60,000 copies of debut edition as title looks to recruit more staff for pilot period
Sun+ signs up 225,000 paying subscribers
News UK title near doubles number paying for access from last year, with majority taking up £7.99 per month package
Johnston Press, Newsquest, Local World take on Facebook and Google
Regional newspaper publishers pool ad space to compete with tech companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google
Roger Ebert: the man who revolutionised movie criticism gets his own film
Henry Barnes: Life Itself traces the career of the pioneering US journalist, who helped to democratise film criticism through his TV shows and newspaper columns
The Guardian wins two Amnesty International Media awards
‘In spite of ever-increasing danger, the quality of journalism is outstanding,’ says Amnesty International UK director, Kate Allen
Sajid Javid: terrorists and criminals are exploiting ‘right to be forgotten’
Culture secretary condemns ruling by European court of justice, calling it an assault on press freedom
One Rogue Reporter review – pranking the tabloid filth-mongers
A rabble-rousing ex-Fleet Street reporter surveys the post-Leveson landscape, with contributions from Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan, writes Mike McCahill
Spain moves to protect domestic media with new ‘Google tax’
Newspapers in Spain will now be able to demand a monthly fee from the search engine before it can list them on Google News. By Alex Hern
From Network to Nightcrawler: why has Hollywood got it in for TV news?
Jake Gyllenhaal’s accident-chasing cameraman is a direct descendant of characters in classics such as Network, Broadcast News and even Anchorman. Steve Rose scans cinema history for a small-screen newshound who isn’t an amoral egomaniac
Irish Times to launch metered paywall next year to boost digital revenues
Company made €5.4m pre-tax profit in 2013